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Lit Hub Daily

September 15, 2026

TODAY: In 1889, Claude McKay is born.

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Emily St. John Mandel talks to Jane Ciabattari about her new dystopian novel, Exit Party: “The doppelgangers are an embodiment of that counterlife: what if another of those versions of you were to suddenly appear before you?” | Lit Hub In Conversation

Youssef Rakha unpacks the Orientalism of Lee Cronin’s The Mummy after watching it in Cairo. | Lit Hub Film

“I love New York; it’s my home now. But Moscow was the city I loved first. I may never be able to go there again.” On coming to terms with modern Russia. | Lit Hub Politics

Gabe Bullard explores the detrimental nature of convenience (after writing a book about inconvenience). | Lit Hub Craft

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How does Madeleine Thien organize her bookshelves? The author answers this and other questions. | Lit Hub Craft

Sun Yung Shin reflects on family, identity, and being a Korean adoptee in the United States. | Lit Hub Memoir

Jim Shepard, Paisley Rekdal, Emily Ogden and more authors with new books answer our questions about literary life. | Lit Hub In Conversation

“Flynn and Miss Ogilvie had been given no part to play in the blind judging of the Festival Cake.” Read from Kate Atkinson’s new novel, Our Noble Selves. | Lit Hub Fiction

THE EXPLOSIVE CONCLUSION TO THE
NINTH HOUSE TRILOGY

Alex Stern made it to hell and back more than once, but this time she left the door open behind her. Demons are creeping through the streets of New Haven and the Yale campus, feeding on the souls of the living, terrifying the dead. Alex and her allies can hunt them, but it’s only a matter of time before the gates to the underworld open and they face a war they cannot win.

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“If we ever reached a point of total automation, Weil argued, humans would destroy themselves out of boredom and restlessness.” Meghan O’Gieblyn on what Simone Weil and Arthur Schopenhauer understood about the individual. | New York Review of Books

Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor go deep on Trump’s AI obsession. | Cultured

Wouter Kusters explores the relationship between philosophy and psychosis. | The MIT Press Reader

Making chatbots generate fiction about your “hyper-specific personal fantasies” instead of just writing it yourself is loser behavior, actually. | Wired

Dennis M. Hogan wants to know what’s going on with improv. | The Baffler

If you’re using ChatGPT, maybe this will change your mind: Open AI has a team of real people reading users’ prompts. | 404 Media

WHY THE ARTIST MUST TAKE SIDES
BY SAUL WILLIAMS

Award-winning poet and performer Saul Williams explores the role of the artist in these times by answering the question: what radicalized you? In poetry and prose, he builds a provocative case for why today’s artists cannot remain neutral in the face of injustice.

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